hey guys new here, saw a wrestling thread and thought i have found my people ! I was a huge wrestling fan in the 80s as a kid, stuck with it past the time most kids stopped watching but for some reason i stopped watching around 97/98 ( i think i played in some basketball leagues that only played monday nights plus girls... but dont remember for certain ) cut to the chase i dont think about it again really for 12 yrs or so , never watched an episode , never was curious, and I am on espn.com one night during my shift ( i work overnights so need to stay awake somehow when slow and i am falling asleep ) and i see an article by Bill Simmons that Macho Man had passed. That was my guy, my favorite wrestler, behind John Stockton, doc gooden and maybe one or two other NY sports stars my favorite athlete ever and again i had not for whatever reason even thought of him once in 12 yrs ( except i remember him being in spider man and i thought wow my man is stilled roided up!) but reading that he passed really shook me. I am not an emotional person at all so not like i cried or whatever but it was like my childhood bestfriend , who i had fallen out of touch with died . It just hit me like wtf man im old, like life doesnt stand still it keeps moving and it took someone to die that to me was immortal and in my head still like 1997 nwo savage to pass to wake me up . I got into the rabbit hole of youtubing all of Savages interviews for that shift ,and the next night i did it again, then again, and after a lil while i just started youtubing 80s wrestling not just with savage stuff but all my favorites , found out plenty others had passed and all of it blew my mind. The youtube algorithm must of started spinning and the whole feed was basically wrestling so i clicked on a few of the newer stuff. I asked myself well why did i stop watching, i guess it was getting corny to me , but it was always corny so i dont know. I loved it as a kid, life is short , lets see if i can get back into it and give myself something else to do . I started watching on like friday night shifts online on some bootleg website. I remember after a few months my guys were Ziggler, Cody Rhodes with the mask, Punk ,i thought Barrett was gonna be a big star and couldnt understand why Tyson Kidd wasnt a thing... fast forward 6 months or so I start watching some raw, then Bryan becomes awesome and guys like Cesaro show up and im hooked. the 2012-2014 around when Bryan first stepped away was def the high pts for me besides NXT which i really loved during the Revival, neville , Zayn etc yrs now i mostly DVR the shows and fast forward through most, I watch NXT but never really live and i got into AEW but its still just DVR and havent taken the 50 dollar hit for one of the PPV although i always think about doing it.
Sorry for the long rant and glad to find other fans.